Tomorrow, the Neuterscooter rolls into Corvallis. I believe they might be half tired out. They fixed 245 cats in Pendleton Milton Freewater, in two days. Then on to fix 133 in Tillamook, and about 60 today in Veneta. I believe about 85 are registered for the Corvallis clinic. Do you think there might be a need for low cost spay/neuter out there, by any chance, seeing these numbers?
She'll be doing Springfield, North Bend, and Gold BEach, too. The Albany clinics are a wash out, with only a few cats registered for each day. I knew this would be the case. They need a rest anyhow I bet. I doubt Albany will be scheduled again, not unless grants are secured to pay for nearly every cat.
The five I'm taking are Pekoe, if she's well enough, Feather, and three ferals I just trapped tonight. Those folks told me they'd pay, then offered up no money. I can't figure it out. I've got to make sure they pay, because now I'm going to have to pay for them. $75 for the three. I'm already paying $100 for Feather and Pekoe. I'm a sad case, nearly broke, and in the red, all from taking responsiblity for other people's cats. That's really really pathetic. I do need to stop this behavior.
Anyhow, these folks are already feeding seven fixed outside cats. Two weeks ago, four more suddenly showed up. Together, too, but they're feral. I bet somebody moved and stopped feeding somewhere. Don't know.
Anyhow. I'm not volunteering tomorrow. They have enough people just with their crew. I'm selling cat toys Midori made up in WA, to try to make some money for spay/neuter and maybe if I sell some, I won't be in a hole so deep just paying for these five.
I don't know why, but the Neuterscooter won't do billing to Poppa for me, so if I take in cats to NS clinics, I have to pay myself. I don't know why. They billed for KATA, almost every cat was on a billing. I don't really see anybody and I get sooo lonely, so I do like to go to at least one of the NS clinics when they are in Oregon, almost just for human contact. But I shouldn't go, because it costs me so much money that I don't really have free to be spending on other people's cats. I guess I've really catapulted into the pathetic zone.
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ReplyDeleteI honestly wonder what occured there too - thoe places never have staff to care for cats and kittens especially are very VERY stressed by change of any kind, so mch so that it can bring on physical lethargy and that is what I wonder? There are several journal articles in vet magazines about this now - how stress can literally kill cats.
I hope she comes out of it!!! We'll al cross our paws here and fingers too!
Pekoe is doing much better, was even spayed yesterday and was the hit of the clinic. She immediately learned, upon command, to jump from a table to the shoulder of the NS vet. I believe she wants her badly, but alas, Pekoe is spoken for already. I bathed her yet again, when under anesthesia. All three kittens from that sorry location, were covered in some sort of grease, on the underside and legs, probably from wherever they found to sleep. It's been hard to get off.
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